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"One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link."
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"Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly."
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"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."
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"The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either."
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"The past is a shadow; the present is real."
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"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."
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"Your past does not define you, your present does."
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"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."
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"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."
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"I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it."
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"I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature."
Nature

"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."
Age

"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."
Experience

"Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see."
Observation

"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain."
Art

"Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre."
Inspirational

"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."
Work

"It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away."
Time

"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
Nature

"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."
Art
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