Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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Ah God! she settles down we say; It means her powers slip away It means she draws back day by day From good or bad.
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The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.
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In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
