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God did not create us to abandon us.

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Religion will never show the way.
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without 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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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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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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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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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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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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After all, the world is still great.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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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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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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