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“ "What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce““Experience had proven that for about forty days, through gradually intensified publicity, you could go on stimulating a city’s interest, but beyond that time there was no audience.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka““People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.””
Eat That Frog! • Brian Tracy““How does Chekhov’s artistic “programme” comment on the message of The Duel, and vice versa? I should like to be a free artist and nothing more, and I regret that God has not given me the power to be one. I hate lying and violence in all their forms. . . . Pharisaism, stupidity and despotism reign not in merchants’ houses and prisons alone. I see them in science, in literature, in the younger generation. . . . That is why I have no preference either for gendarmes, or for butchers, or for scientists, or for writers, or for the younger generation. I regard trade-marks and labels as a superstition. My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom— freedom from violence and lying, whatever forms they may take. This is the programme I would follow if I were a great artist.*””
The Duel • Anton Chekhov