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"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better."
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"You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius."
"There must be instinct on d inside to have an increase on d outside."
"A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct."
"The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat."
"If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale."
"And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness."
"A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy."
"Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider's ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the part of his prey. Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as cats, would starve."
"My body either likes you or it doesn't. And, I trust my body but I can't assuredly tell you why."
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"Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."
"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."
"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."
"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."
"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression."
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