"The sunflower is mine, in a way."
"It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing."
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Source: Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's diary; the artist's life in his own words and art”
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