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"There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."
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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
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"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."
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"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."
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"If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?"
Man
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
Love
"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
Faith
"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."
Work
"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create."
Life
"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
Courage
"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
Love
"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
Religion
"Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous."
Imagination
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
Dream
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