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“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― The Golden Notebook
― The Golden Notebook
“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.”
― Travels with Herodotus
― Travels with Herodotus
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