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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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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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