All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. - Johann Georg Hamann

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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Johann Georg Hamann

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

Grief, Reward, Rewards, Wisdom, Works, Worry

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Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

Concepts, Happens, Hence, Things

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter

Matter, Mirrors, Neighbor, Same, Self

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

Apocalyptic, Demosthenes, Eloquent, Single Word, Three, Times

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

Able, Proper, Reader, See, Understand

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

Book, Fairy, Letters, Philosophical

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Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

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Eric Schmidt

People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.

Awful, Idiots, People, Surprised, Think, Thinking

Jacob de Jager

Inactives-those whose feet are not placed on the path which leads to eternal life.

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Jonathan Lethem

I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.

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Robert Breault

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

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