“In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”
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“So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.”
― Narcissus and Goldmund
― Narcissus and Goldmund
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
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“Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.”
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“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life”
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
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