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"I thought I would be understood without words."
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"What's the meaning of ignore? You hear somebody, but you never asnwer to him!"

"Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order."

"Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."

"Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts."

"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."

"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."

"Listen should be on 60-70% and talking or speaking on from 40 up to 30%."

"When you open your mouth, listeners are offended. When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended. If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver."

"If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language, one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it."

"You can save hundred words with just one look!"
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"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."


"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."


"I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime."


"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum."


"One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it."


"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."


"In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true."
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