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"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
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"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."
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"It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory."
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"I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones."
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"Because of pain you feel more and so you live more."
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"The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable."
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"One fire burns out another's burning,One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish."
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"One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey."
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"No, I say, it's fine.Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really."
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"Pain is the University of Life."
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"If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?"
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"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
Desire

"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
Hope

"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."
Thought

"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
Appreciation

"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
Beauty

"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him."
Love

"I live and love in God's peculiar light."
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"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."
Life

"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
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