“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.