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"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness."
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"The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart..."
"How now, spirit, whither wander you?"
"You are a dance of a divine spirit, you just have to realize it."
"Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope."
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"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 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."
"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul."
"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."
"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."
"Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching."
"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."
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