"Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true."

Picasso, Pablo on fame
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"Drink to me."

Picasso, Pablo on famous last words
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"I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same."

Picasso, Pablo on fashion   

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

Picasso, Pablo on inspiration
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"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."

Groening, Matt on love
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"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things."

Eliot, T. S. on poetry and poets
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."

Dickinson, Emily on books - reading   

"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."

Dickinson, Emily on boldness
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"He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust."

Dickinson, Emily on books - reading
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"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."

Dickinson, Emily on truth
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"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."

Dickinson, Emily on truth
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"A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day."

Dickinson, Emily on words
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"Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid -- as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God."

Dickinson, Emily on consciousness   

"Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all."

Dickinson, Emily on belief   

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Dickinson, Emily on beauty
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"I dwell in Possibility."

Dickinson, Emily on possibilities
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"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies."

Dickinson, Emily on possibilities
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"To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else."

Dickinson, Emily on present   

"Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency"

Dickinson, Emily on science
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"His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part."

Dickinson, Emily on secrets   

"To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe."

Dickinson, Emily on sorrow
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"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."

Dickinson, Emily on success
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"I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe --"

Dickinson, Emily on suffering   

"Dying is a wild night and a new road."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"Let us go in; the fog is rising."

Dickinson, Emily on death   

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]"

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?"

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."

Shakespeare, William on advice
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."

Shakespeare, William on adversity
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"To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity."

Weeks, Edward on fear
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"Now comes the mystery."

Beecher, Henry Ward on famous last words
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"What is the answer? [Silence] In that case, what is the question?"

Stein, Gertrude on famous last words
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