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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

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

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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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