Haruki Murakami Quotes
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We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don’t fear the shadows it creates.
Ted Dekker
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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
Arthur Rimbaud
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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
Nan Goldin
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I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see
N.D. Wilson
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When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.
Mark Steyn
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He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.
Emily Bronte
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Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
Charles Dickens
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
Thomas Hobbes
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I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are ugly or grotesque, and some wicked or foolish, but very many beautiful beyond any one we have ever seen, and that these are not far away... and the simple of all times and the wise men of ancient times have seen them and even spoken to them.
William Butler Yeats
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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
Haruki Murakami