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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Truth, Blind

"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Truth, Power, Thought, Symbol, Character

"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Truth, Young, Honesty, People

"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Truth, Death, Life, End

"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Truth, Knowledge, Denial, Reality

"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Truth,

"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Truth, Errors, Mankind

"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondereth the hearts."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Truth, Man, Right, Eyes, Heart

"You have nothing to lose, only to live."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Truth, Nothing, Lose, Live, Freedom

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Truth, Environment, Death, Pollution, Money

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"I'm growing old, I delight in the past."

Delight

"An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language."

Nature

"I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it."

Vision

"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me."

Art

"It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else."

Life

"In love, the one who runs away is the winner."

Love

"He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back."

Freedom

"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."

Art

"In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope."

Nature

"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul."

Soul