WIST Quotations moves again!A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:
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When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.
[Quand on écrit avec facilité, on croit toujours avoir plus de talent qu’on n’en a.]
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Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 23 "Des Qualités de l’Écrivain [Of the Qualities of Writers]" ¶ 45 (1804 entry) (1850 ed.) [tr. Auster (1983)] - Joubert, Joseph | WIST Quotations
When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do. [Quand on écrit avec facilité, on croit toujours avoir plus de talent qu’on n’en a.] (Source (French)). Alternate translations: He who writes with ease always thinks that he has more talent than he really has.…