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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Vincent quería que sus obras transmitieran emociones, por lo que necesitaba sentir melancolía para incluirla en su trabajo:
«La vida del artista es un auténtico calvario. Y aunque parezca irónico, es lo que nos mantiene vivos. La pasión nos alienta y morimos cuando no hay nada que la alimente. No nos importa atravesar un camino lleno de espinas, porque también encontramos poesía.» (Carta 675, Arlés, c.8 de septiembre de 1888)”
― Liesbeth Heenk, Van Gogh y sus Cartas a Theo: Más allá de la Leyenda (Misterios de Van Gogh nº 2)

“but he instinctively feels, I am good for something, my life has a purpose after all… How could I be useful, of what service can I be?”
― Jan Greenberg, Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist

“En Arlés vivió durante tres semanas a base de galletas náuticas, huevos y leche, porque era más importante tener dinero para pagar a sus modelos.
Esto es tan sólo una muestra de lo que podemos encontrar en las cartas. El cansancio físico y la abnegación parecen haber sido los pilares sobre los que asentó su carrera. Creía firmemente que su carrera tenía un único fin: hacer buenas pinturas y dibujos.”
― Liesbeth Heenk, Van Gogh y sus Cartas a Theo: Más allá de la Leyenda (Misterios de Van Gogh nº 2)

“The heart of man is very much like the sea; it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.”
– Vincent Van Gogh, artist”
― – Vincent Van Gogh, artist

“The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher, the more I become an artist, creator, in this revival of the arts.”
― Jan Greenberg, Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”
― bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
― bell hooks

“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions