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"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

"I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for."
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"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely."

"Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression."

"I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!"

"At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it."

"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!"

"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value."
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