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Writers
«To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.»
«The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
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contemporaries, Faust, individualist, individualists, madman, Modern Age, semi, surviving, The Modern Age
«What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.»
«Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.»
«To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.»
«To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.»
«The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.»
«The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.»
«The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle
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euphoria, his pen, lay aside, prolixity, self-doubt