“To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.”
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
