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Vincent van Gogh

Nature
The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
3.1 · 6 votes · 63 reads
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Time
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
5.0 · 28 votes · 65 reads
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Art and Culture
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
5.0 · 36 votes · 135 reads
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Nature
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
4.5 · 46 votes · 198 reads
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Thought and Reason
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
4.2 · 18 votes · 10 reads
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Virtues
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
4.4 · 20 votes · 147 reads
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Time
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
3.1 · 38 votes · 167 reads
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Defects
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
4.1 · 62 votes · 184 reads
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Thought and Reason
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
3.8 · 61 votes · 57 reads
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Government and Politics
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
3.8 · 38 votes · 139 reads
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Society
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
3.3 · 50 votes · 125 reads
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Virtues
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
4.8 · 26 votes · 179 reads
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Thought and Reason
We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on
3.8 · 45 votes · 6 reads
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Art and Culture
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
4.3 · 45 votes · 84 reads
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Society
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
3.5 · 37 votes · 54 reads
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Time
What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual sayi
4.2 · 57 votes · 110 reads
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Thought and Reason
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
4.4 · 54 votes · 122 reads
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Nature
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
3.2 · 48 votes · 88 reads
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Nature
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
4.6 · 8 votes · 125 reads
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Defects
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
4.8 · 25 votes · 171 reads
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Nature
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a
3.1 · 52 votes · 95 reads
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