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Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
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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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We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.
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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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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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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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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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