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Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. - Journal, December, 1900.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.