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  1. Arthur Schopenhauer _ The Art of Literature

    There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. {...} The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
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  2. Arthur Schopenhauer _ The Art of Literature

    Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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  3. Arthur Schopenhauer _ The Art of Literature

    No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject."
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  4. Arthur Schopenhauer _ The Art of Literature

    A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
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  5. Arthur Schopenhauer _ The Art of Literature

    Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
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