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How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Vincent Van Gogh
Age: 37 †
Born: 1853
Born: March 30
Died: 1890
Died: July 29
Botanical Illustrator
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Brooklyn
New York
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I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
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To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
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For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
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