It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
I can only note that the past is beautiful, because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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