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“If only he had felt the sure sign of the artist, and realized that he who does not forget himself for his art, is not born to be one, it would have spared him much vain effort and much wasted trouble.”
― Karl Phillip Moritz

“Man sollte nicht eine Waffe gegenüber der anderen bevorzugen. Das Gleiche gilt für alle Dinge des Lebens. Man muss seine Waffen so auswählen, dass sie zu einem passen, und darf nicht versuchen, andere dabei nachzuahmen.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, (五輪書) Go Rin No Sho - The Book Of Five Rings : A Modern English Translation of Musashi-Sensei's Masterpiece

“I should ask, in the first place, whether or not I wish to purchase a solution to a problem that I do not have.”
― Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

“I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper