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You take your artistic ability on trust. You consider it a part of you. Ruburt considers his writing a part of him. There are people highly gifted with artistic abilities, who have never trusted those abilities, did not consider them a part of themselves, and practically speaking have been unable to use them.
The abilities have always been present, however, latent as within each man health is there, though perhaps latent in the same way. The rich man thinks of wealth as a part of himself. He takes it for granted he has it and will achieve more. The poor man takes his poverty for granted, actually on trust, and takes it for granted he will have more of the same.
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Despite your feelings against this house, generated because of Mr. Spaziani, at least on one level, your love of it was picked up by your present landlady for several reasons having nothing to do with the house. She has great respect for your painting, and for Ruburt’s abilities, and you knew her when she was a soldier in Rome. It is for this reason that she painted the halls, and made the apartment adjustment. In this case the past overrode your negative ideas about the house when she bought it.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
Now. It may seem to you that ideally one should be so highly proficient that in one life you are gifted with excellent health, great abilities, power and wealth. The fact remains however that many individuals choose to “specialize” in quotes, learning for example how to translate creative thought into physical form, or into physical abundance, and relatively ignore other areas.
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