As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
From Joseph Conrad
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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