"If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to devote myself entirely to what I loved best in the world. I had never suffered poverty; I had good parents and excellent friends; I can only thank God."

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Source : Letter to M. Francais, 1875.

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

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“A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."”
“The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette.”
“One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.”
“Have faith in who you are. Believe that you will recover, and it will truly happen. And don't judge yourself too harshly. Some things are meant to be, and you had to fall so that later you may rise and become what you are truly meant to be.”
“They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to college, they have been fighting for three or four years to get the perfect SAT scores and get into A.P. classes.”
“As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.”
“I always thought of this as God's country.”
“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.”

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