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"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."
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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."
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"If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation."
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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."
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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."
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"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."
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"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."
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"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
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"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
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"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books."
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"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist."
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"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
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"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
Want
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
Beginning
"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."
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"Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published."
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"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
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