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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest

This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds