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Man Associates Ideas Not According To Logic Or Verifiable Exactitude, But According To His Pleasure And Interests. It Is For This Reason That Most Truths Are Nothing But Prejudices.

Art Includes Everything Which Stimulates The Desire To Live; Science Includes Everything Which Sharpens The Desire To Know. Art, Even The Most Disinterested, The Most Disembodied, Is The Auxiliary Of Life.

To Write Well, To Have Style ... Is To Paint. The Master Faculty Of Style Is Therefore The Visual Memory. If A Writer Does Not See What He Describes-countrysides And Figures, Movements And Gestures-how Could He Have A Style, That Is Originality?

Thinking Is Hard Work. One Can't Bear Burdens And Ideas At The Same Time

Nothing Exists Except By Virtue Of A Disequilibrium, An Injustice. All Existence Is A Theft Paid For By Other Existences; No Life Flowers Except On A Cemetery.