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"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."
"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know."
"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures."
"I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else."
"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."
"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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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."
"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
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