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“If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.”
― Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom, Volume 1: Sutra
― Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom, Volume 1: Sutra
“Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.”
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“One should embrace the artist's profession only after recognising in oneself an intense passion for Nature and the disposition to pursue it with a perseverance that nothing can shatter - thirst for neither approval nor financial profit. Do not be discouraged by the censure that might fall upon one's works - one must be armoured with a strong conviction which makes one go straight ahead fearing no obstacle. An unremitting task […] an unassailable conscience. (From a sketchbook of 1847).”
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“Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.”
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
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