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" Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. "

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" Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. "

" The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. "

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" Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. "

" Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. "

" Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. "

" One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. "

" It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. "

" The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. "

" Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. "

" Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. "

" The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. "

" There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. "

" A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. "

" It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. "

" The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. "

" Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. "

" Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. "

" Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. "

" What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. "

" Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. "