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    Vincent van Gogh
    “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, love
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: loneliness, passion
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: inspirational
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: books-art-beauty
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: courage, inaction, just-do-it, timidity
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: painting, self-doubt
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
    tags: ataraxy, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
    324 likes

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    Flannery O'Connor
    “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
    tags: authors, childhood, humor, southern-authors, southern-writers, writing
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
    tags: truth
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
    tags: humor, wit
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
    tags: composition, craft, creative-process, painting, wholeness, writing
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  • #21
    David Foster Wallace
    “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: books, infinite-jest
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    David Foster Wallace
    “How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
    tags: words
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
    tags: bees, impermanence, insight, mujō, philosophy, stillness, time, 無常
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  • #24
    “And then there are days of being lost in the woods, not knowing the fate, but just being a wanderer - That's life”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: fate, life, lost, sad, unsure, wander
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    Walt Whitman
    “Agonies are one of my changes of garments;
    I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person,
    My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
    tags: agony, pain
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  • #26
    “The sad thing about history is that there are so many people out there from centuries, generations, even eras ago who are no longer in existence. They're names and stories aren't written down. They're now just mysterious figures of bone and dust deep in the ground that will never be known because no one bothered knowing them.”
    ― Amanda Lovelorn
    tags: centuries, existence, history, lost, mysterious, reality, sad, time, tragic, written
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    Erica Bauermeister
    “Scents were like rain, or birds. They left and came back.”
    ― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper
    tags: birds, leaving, rain, scents, temporary
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: inspirational, truth
    327 likes

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    Franz Kafka
    “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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  • #30
    “Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.”
    ― Gianna Perada
    tags: deep-thoughts, healing, life-and-living, moving, pain, rebirth, soulful
    234 likes



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