Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it.

Anthony Marais
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  2. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. - Vincent Van Gogh

  3. Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. - Clive Barker

  4. Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. - Chuck Klosterman

  5. There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. - Vincent Van Gogh

More Quotes By Anthony Marais
  1. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

  2. Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

  3. We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

  4. Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

  5. People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

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