"Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]"
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"The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before."
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"There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books."
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"Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before."
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"I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book."
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"Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry."
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"Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?"
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"Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days."
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"A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings."
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"No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist."
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"Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink."
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"Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life."
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"Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge."
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"One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it."
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"There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action."
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"How difficult it is to be simple."
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"He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death."
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"...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known."
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"He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us."
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"The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is."
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