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"I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure."
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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"
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""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."
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"The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."
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"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."
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"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
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"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
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"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."
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"I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's."
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"I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone."
Character

"I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter."
Life

"I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it."
Life

"I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year."
Happiness

"If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise."
Paradise

"I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more."
Woman

"I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure."
Fire

"You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself."
Work

"I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me."
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