“If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.”
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.