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Henri Matisse

"I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer."

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"I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer."

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"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

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"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."

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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

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"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."

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"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

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"I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God."

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"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."

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"The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence."

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"This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties."

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"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."
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"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you."
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