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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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