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Mark Rothko

"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale."

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"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale."

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"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."

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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

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"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."

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"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

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"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

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"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."

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"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."

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"I'm fine," [her dad] said gently. "Back on the horse, Cath.''What's the horse?' she sighed, watching him pull on a South High hoodie. 'Jogging? Working too much?''Living,' he said, a little too loud. 'Life's the horse."

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Amber Hurdle

"Born in a cellar... and living in a garret."

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"In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything."

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