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Marie Bashkirtseff

Marie Bashkirtseff (Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva; Russian: Мария Константиновна Башки́рцева), was a Russian diarist, painter, and sculptor.

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Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

Art, Charming, Commonplace, Eternally, Making, Swallow

Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

Body, Painting, Soul

When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.

Apt, Missing, Opportunity, Present, Regret

I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.

Acceptance, Everything, Know, Knows, Long, See

Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings.

Admire, Art, Feelings, Men, Nature, Sun

Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

Anticipation, Bad, Good, Nothing, Reality

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

Life, Paris

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Man and cats are unworthy creatures.

Cat, Cats, Dog, Dogs, Men, Unworthy

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

Expectation, Expectations, Terrible, Unpleasantness, Worry

I want to live faster, faster, faster!. . . I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?

Desire, Faster, Fear, Pressure, Want

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.

Consideration, Knows, Men, Mind

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

Caused, Human Nature, Humans, Indignation, Stupidity

What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.

Ambition, Everything, Nothing

They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate.

Fortunate, See, Wish