“I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong”
During an interview in the latter years of his career http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YOti0icEbw
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Variant translations:
There is nothing I like better than that I should be true to myself and they to themselves.
Disputed
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