"Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]"
"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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Source: Irving Stone (1987). “The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo”, Signet
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