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The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.

Summon Energy Sincerity Greatest modesty
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

Astonishing Understanding Art
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Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

Drawing Particular dexterity Expressing Intimate feeling
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My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

My choice Rest Scientific theory Observation
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...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

Our time Share Opinions Feelings
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A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

Thousand words Deep impression
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Much falsehood Home School Speak
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Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.

World Compare Happiness Forgiveness
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What good would that ever do me if you were gone from this world, as you say? Not the slightest.

Good Gone World
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The White God is coming northward; him will I not meet; the old gods are strong no longer;—they sleep, they sit half shadow- high;—with them will we strive!

White God Coming northward Old gods Strong
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Great aim Education Knowledge Action
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Society exist Benefit Members
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Commonly see Diminution Freedom
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Man's knowledge Order Confusion
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Never entered Poetry Surrounded
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To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Future Goal Life Live
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One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Another Cannot Convenient Geometry
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It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

About Always Because Good Knows
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If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

Close Four Getting Morning
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I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'

Authors Did Everybody Famous
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I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

Am Brave Funny I Am
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You cannot know God unless you are at peace. Even angels can only work in your life when you are at peace. This is the reason why, every time they appeared to a person in the Bible to deliver a message, they first said, 'Peace be still.'

Peace First Deliver Person
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You have the joy of the Lord within you, not only to REFRESH your life, but to refresh those around you!

Around Refresh Life Joy
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You need to get to a level where you understand that your victorious end has already been established. When you understand this, you will not go through life upset because of a disappointment, frustrated because a dream hasn't come to pass, or bitter because of a loss. You will keep your joy!

Keep Joy Loss Bitter
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God knows the end of every matter from its beginning. Nothing that you're going through, therefore, comes as a surprise to Him. He has already ensured that though weapons may be formed and forged against you- you remain on the winning side.

Remain Winning Already Side
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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Cannot I Think Important Knowing
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I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

Another Business Foolish Get
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A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

Age Bright Correctly Guesses
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We were not created to just get on by with average, ordinary or mediocre lives. God created us to make lasting marks in this generation. He designed us to be extraordinary. Indeed, every person has seeds of greatness embedded within them, and by watering those seeds with the word of God, they can sprout forth and flourish.

Flourish Forth Seeds Average
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I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

Anticipate Challenge Come Confidence
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Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

About Bills Cash Check
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It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

Happy Like Lot Make
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I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

Album Always Another Every
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A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

Caused Did Ear Going
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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Always Clear Even Flight
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Enjoy Here Know Order
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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Did Done Ever Get
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Does Door Him Imprisoned
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Achieve Adjustment Combination Does
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Cannot Must Silent Speak
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

Boxer Discussions Goes Like
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

Chief Concern Him Himself
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Activity A Philosophy Theory
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Finds Hard Knows Lie
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Am Bad Good Good Nature
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Man Nothing Religious Religious Man
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

Attitude Being Celebrated Ceremony
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Imagination Keyboard Like Note
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Belongs Death Duration Eternal
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The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
Facts Things Totality World
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