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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

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

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

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

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

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

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

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

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

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

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

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