"Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting."

-- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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“May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.”
“A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.”
“No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.”
“We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world there is unity and commerce.”

Source : David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.147, Random House
“Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.”
“Obviously I think it's really important to look back at your history, and that's why I think things like Pride are important. It's not necessarily about your experience of life, it's not about whether you find it difficult to be gay; it's about the fact that people have fought over hundreds of years for this to be okay, and also that there are many countries in the world where it's still not, and it's very dangerous to be gay.”
“Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory.”
“Some achieve greatness through people who lift them higher. Others find it when they have to stand alone.”

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