WednesdayMay 15, 2024
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir–faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.
A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
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