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From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.
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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?
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Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?
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After all, the world is still great.
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Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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Religion will never show the way.
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I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.
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If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.
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