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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: poetry
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    C.G. Jung
    “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: addiction, psyche, psychology
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    C.G. Jung
    “As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
    tags: childhood, psychology
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    Douglas Adams
    “There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: psychology
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    June Ahern
    “How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.”
    ― June Ahern
    tags: life-lessons, psychology, spirituality, truth
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    Ken Kesey
    “All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”
    ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    tags: psychology
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: inspirational, psychology
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: psychology, thoughts
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    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In short, for myself, I am a hard act to follow.”
    ― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
    tags: bipolar, mania, manic, mental-illness, psychology
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    Criss Jami
    “When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: bad-people, brain, cognition, compassion, comprehension, development, empathy, good, good-people, misunderstanding, misunderstood, perspective, psychology, sympathy, understanding
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    Erich Fromm
    “If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
    ― Erich Fromm
    tags: psychology
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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
    ― Abraham Harold Maslow
    tags: desire, psychology, self-awareness, understanding
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    C.G. Jung
    “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
    ― Carl G. Jung
    tags: life, psychology
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    Saul Bellow
    “One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.”
    ― Saul Bellow, Herzog
    tags: existentialism, psychology, true-to-life
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    Karen Horney
    “If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride”
    ― Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
    tags: inspiration, psychology
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
    tags: fear, memory, psychology
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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
    tags: art, love
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art, inspirational
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    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
    ― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
    tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
    tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement
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    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, calling, life
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide
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  • #27
    Edgar Degas
    “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
    ― Edgar Degas
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  • #28
    Bob Ross
    “We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
    ― Bob Ross
    tags: art, inspirational
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  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #30
    Lester Bangs
    “The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
    ― Lester Bangs
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