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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
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