Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one … - Vincent Van Gogh

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It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

Vincent Van Gogh

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

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Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

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I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

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I never get tired of the blue sky.

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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

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At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.

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Whether it's Mrs Dalloway's lost love or Thérèse Raquin's burgeoning horror, The Paying Guests reminds us of every great novel we've gasped or winced at, or loudly urged the protagonists through, and it does not relent. . . . The Paying Guests is the apotheosis of [Waters'] talent; at least for now. I have tried and failed to find a single negative thing to say about it. Her next will probably be even better. Until then, read it, Flaubert, Zola, and weep.

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Edgar Allan Poe

You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself. . . of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

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Horace Mann

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

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Carl Honore

Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.

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Chinua Achebe

At the most one could say that his chi or. . . personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed.

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