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• You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.

  Michael Ende

  Missing, Feels

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• My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.

  Jean Cocteau

  Color, Tiny, Use

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.

  Wallace Stegner

  Long, Realizing, Born

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• In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.

  Tom Robbins

  Ideas, Personality, Grace

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

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• I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.

  Claude Monet

  Years, Despair, Needs

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

  Claude Monet

  Years, Painting, Achieve

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

  Jane Fonda

  New York, West Coast, Revolutionary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.

  Freya Stark

  Cutting, Men, Winning

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.44, I.B.Tauris

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• I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.

  Pablo Casals

  Art, Work, Dedication

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• No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Dark, Echoes, Cities

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Collected Poems 1931-74”, p.169, Faber & Faber

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• The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.

  David Hockney

  Cameras, Way, Moments

  "David Hockney". Book by Marco Livingstone, 1976.

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• But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left.

  Prince Philip

  Reality, Population, Growing

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• I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  House, Magic, Bay Area

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• But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.

  Robert Bly

  Party, Heaven, Delicacy

  Robert Bly (2013). “Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011”, p.167, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Mother, Father, Home

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• Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Children, Loneliness, Frail

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• Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, Rivers, Giving

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• The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible for the popular forces to expose this clearly.

  Che Guevara

  People, Suffering, Poverty

  "From Algiers, for Marcha : The Cuban Revolution Today". "Marcha" Magazine, www.marxists.org. March 12, 1965.

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• If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!

  Eugene Delacroix

  Different, Would Be, Actors

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• This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

  David Niven

  Army, Thinking, Numbers

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• You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Thinking, Glasses, Water

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• The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber! -William Sloan Coffin.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Doors, Order

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• Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Baseball, Thinking, Reason

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• Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Would Be, Littles, Plagiarism

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