"There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life."

-- Eugene Delacroix

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“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
“Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.”
“Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.”
“I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.”
“Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.”
“Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.”
“Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.”
“Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.156, Emblem Editions

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