Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Baltasar Gracian
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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. -
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. -
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities. -
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
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- A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
- He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
- Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
- Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
- Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.