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"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
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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."
"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
"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."
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."
"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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"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness."
"You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing."
"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder."
"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul."
"Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
"The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women."
"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
"The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion."
"You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion."
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