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41 " An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it. "
42 " Hope never abandons you you abandon it. "
43 " A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail grow indispensable. "
44 " When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. " Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them." (p.191) "
45 " But one gets tired of everything, even of abusing a person. Paris abandons its puppets which it raises to the throne as quickly as it does its martyrs whom it hoists on the gibbet; in its perpetual hunger for new playthings, it never gets itself excited overly much before the statues of its heroes or at the sight of the blood of its victims. "
― Octave Mirbeau , Le Calvaire
46 " I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him. "
47 " An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. "
