"Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives, but let's not let the process blind us to the majesty that is right in front of us."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Life, Magic, Experience, Majesty

"Your life is a reflection. you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"Many like to ask the questions, few like to hear the answers."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here. MAKE IT COUNT!"

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Life, Moment, Count, Journey

"Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!"

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

"It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives, but let's not let the process blind us to the majesty that is right in front of us."

"Your life is a reflection. you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it."

"Many like to ask the questions, few like to hear the answers."

"This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here. MAKE IT COUNT!"

"Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!"

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"On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright."

"What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality."

"Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space."

"There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality."

"I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life."

"Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play."