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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness but with energy and above all with illusions I pulled through the...more

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself ...more