"To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations."

-- Charles Edward Montague

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“Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things...”
“How can one be well...when one suffers morally?”
“You have got to trust the signs. Everything will turn out fine”
“I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much do anything you want. I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.”
“Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.”
“There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.”
“You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to navigate. The wet walls touch your shoulders on each side. When the trees were there I cared that they were there. And now they are gone, does it matter? The passages where no one waits go on and give no promise of an end. You will find yourself among people, Faces, clothing, teeth and hair and words, and many words When there was life, I said that life was wrong. What do I say now? You understand?”
“I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.”

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