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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.
The tragedy of love is indifference.
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
Do you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.