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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."

"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw."

"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love."

"I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available."

"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."

"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."

"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter."
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