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Letter 1 |
"...ask yourself in
the most silent hour of your night: must I write?"
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Letter 2 |
"Irony: Don't let
yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative
moments." |
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Letter 3 |
"I learn it every day of
my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is
everything!" |
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Letter 4 |
"...try to love the
questions themselves... books written in a very foreign
language." |
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Letter 5 |
"...there is much beauty
here, because everywhere there is much beauty." |
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Letter 6 |
"...there is only
one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear..." |
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Letter 7 |
"...that something is
difficult must be one more reason for us to do it." |
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Letter 8 |
"...ask yourself whether
these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through
you..." |
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Letter 9 |
"...that you may find in
yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to
have faith..." |
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Letter 10 |
"Art too is just a way of
living..." |