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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
Biographer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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San Francisco County
California
Antidotes
Antidote
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Life

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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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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm? Indignation, said Michelangelo. Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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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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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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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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How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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Normal people do not create art.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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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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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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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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