Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
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Rainbow Rowell
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.
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Vincent Van Gogh
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
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Clive Barker
Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
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Chuck Klosterman
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
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Vincent Van Gogh
More Quotes By Mark Van Doren
I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension–the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
For Tolstoy .. . anything that human beings do has its glory.. .. I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.
There is one thing we can do and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.
