Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
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