"To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain."

-- Jean Vanier

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“The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.”
“A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.”

Source : Frederick Philip Grove, Paul Hjartarson (1986). “A stranger to my time: essays by and about Frederick Philip Grove”
“Most of us don't want to be outsiders.”
“We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable.”
“Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to their own selves-there is a horrendous gulf and disparity.”
“The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.”
“A kiss from my mother made me a painter.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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