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"I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime."
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"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
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"The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony of life and you will hear yourself. Find the beauty of nature and you have found your soul."
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Personal Development
"The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up-flaked up, with rose-water snow."
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Personal Development
"Learn to see what you are looking at."
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Personal Development
"His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw."
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Personal Development
"You know what it's like when a cart overturns in the street? Everybody you meet has witnessed it. They saw a man's leg sliced clean off. They saw a woman gasp her last. They saw the goods looted, thieves stealing from the back-end while the carter was crushed at the front. They heard a man roar out his last confession, while another whispered his last will and testament. And if all the people who say they were there had really been there, then the dregs of London would have drained to the one spot, the gaols emptied of thieves, the beds empty of whores, and all the lawyers standing on the shoulders of the butchers to get a better look."
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Personal Development
"The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes."
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"The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable."
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Personal Development
"Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see."
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Personal Development
"This visit has compacted the court's quarrels and intrigues, trapped them in the small space within the town's walls. The travelers have become as intimate with each other as cards in a pack: contiguous, but their paper eyes blind."
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"In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true."
Creativity
"There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single."
Self
"It has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting."
Creativity
"So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way."
Soul
"Where friendship blooms, life is reborn."
Friendship
"Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets " neither of us have any."
Regret
"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
Painting
"I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made.."
Reflection
"Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!"
Hope
"We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: "He is the one. But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road."
Loneliness
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