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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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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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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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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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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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Religion will never show the way.
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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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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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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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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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After all, the world is still great.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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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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