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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."

"Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life."

"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."

"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light."

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."

"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."

"By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life."
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