"I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?"

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Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

Marie Bashkirtseff

#Desire Quotes #Want Quotes #Pressure Quotes

“If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.”
“You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless.”
“For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.”
“Human destiny is an episode between two oblivions.”
“It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by its own bootstraps... Every new discovery in mathematics, results from an attempt to solve some problem.”
“Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying Godâ€™s will, even if you have to stand alone.”
“The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.”
“Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.”

Source : George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.257, Cosimo, Inc.

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