Raphael Hanna
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“To the man who loves art for its own sake,” remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, “it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.”
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“Go into yourself. Examine the reason that bids you to write; check whether it reaches its roots into the deepest region of your heart, admit to yourself whether you would die if it should be denied you to write. This above all: ask yourself in your night's quietest hour: must I write?”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“If you hold close to nature, to what is simple in it, to the small things people hardly see and which all of a sudden can become great and immeasurable; if you have this love for what is slight, and quite unassumingly, as a servant, seek to win the confidence of what seems poor – then everything will grow easier, more unified and somehow more conciliatory, not perhaps in the intellect, which, amazed, remains a step behind, but in your deepest consciousness, watchfulness and knowledge.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
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