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| A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. | | Business | |
| A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. | | Uncategorized | |
| A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas | | Uncategorized | |
| A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts | | Uncategorized | |
| A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. | | Men | |
| A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. | | Uncategorized | |
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| A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations. | | Uncategorized | |
| An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it | | Uncategorized | |
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| Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. | | Uncategorized | |
| Everything that is simple is theoratically false, everything that is complicated is pragmatically useless. | | Uncategorized | |
| God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly | | God | |
| God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. | | Uncategorized | |
| God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through | | God | |
| History is the science of things which are not repeated. | | History | |
| History is the science of what never happens twice. | | Uncategorized | |
| In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well | | Poetry | |
| Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself. | | Uncategorized | |
| Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. | | Uncategorized | |
