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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.
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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.
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Knowledge is power.
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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.
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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
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