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“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain

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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.
But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark.
May I have the pleasure?”
― Stephen King

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