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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

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There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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