“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
“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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“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
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“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
― Narcissus and Goldmund
― Narcissus and Goldmund
“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
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