Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"In spite of everything, I shall rise again"
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Spite
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Lucian Freud
Painter
"I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be."
Clarence Jordan
Theologian
"Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody."
Sufjan Stevens
Musician
"I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life."
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"It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles."
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"Legend remains victorious in spite of history."
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"What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas."
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"If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out."
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"If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it."
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"Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers."
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"Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life."
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"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."
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"Faultless in spite of all her faults."
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"In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either."
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"Unconditional love is being connected to Source in spite on the conditions."
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"In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail."
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"In spite of everything, I still have my good old sense of humor."
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"In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself."
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"American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can."
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"This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults."
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"Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever"
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"In spite of what anyone says it’s women who make the rules."
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"Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all."
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"Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it."
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