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"What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart."
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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."
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Personal Development
"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."
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Personal Development
"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."
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Personal Development
"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."
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"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"
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Personal Development
"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."
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Personal Development
"As I think of myself, so I shall be."
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Personal Development
"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."
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Personal Development
"No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice."
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"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."
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"But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more than if we kept systematically away from emotions?"
Growth
"In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically."
Life
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
Art
"Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!"
Hope
"One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it."
Art
"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."
Self-Worth
"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."
Love
"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
Art
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
Devotion
"What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do."
Art
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