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What we know of others is our personal secret.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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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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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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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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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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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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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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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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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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Religion will never show the way.
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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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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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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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Normal people do not create art.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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