All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

Author: Otto Dix

Author: Otto Dix

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Many people desire to be trusted but they don’t do things that make them trustworthy...

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In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, o

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When asked, 'What did you want to say in this work?' he would answer, 'I've said what I've said.'Thi

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When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won'

Author: E.M. Forster
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Environment provides us with many cultures. From each we identify our beliefs that give us our value

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come

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The more helpless you are the better you are fitted to pray and the more answers to prayer you wil

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Her was interested in the shadow herself - how her mind worked, what motivated her, her essence, how

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Grover murmured, "Well, Percy, what have we learned today?"That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber

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Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times.

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Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.

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When sinners judge, God takes the stand.

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The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil whi

Author: Edith Hamilton
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THE CURE FOR EXHAUSTIONSometimes, exhaustedwith toil and endeavour,I wish I could sleepfor ever and

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...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence a

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these writ

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
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Have you children, Mr Brandstetter?" He shook his head. "I was one once. Does it help?

Author: Joseph Hansen
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I can’t comprehend why any black man with even a lick of sense would have the slightest bit of inter

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If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure

Author: Paul A.M. Dirac
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He always felt embarrassed opening gifts in front of others, having to act out delight or surprise.

Author: Phaedra Patrick
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When you smile from within good things come to you from without. Just breathe, your music will come.

Author: Lisa Fantino
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Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

Author: Amit Kalantri
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Life is about the journey, not the destination. As long as we persevere in mindful thinking, beliefs

Author: Glenn A. Maltais
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discoverin

Author: Ian Mckellen
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes

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My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them,

Author: Charles Barkley
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imaginat

Author: Stephen Covey
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It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really

Author: Kasie West
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IT’S MY CHOICEI get a gift every morning, the gift of a new day, It’s up to me whether I make it bri

Author: Maddy Malhotra
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We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own sk

Author: André Berthiaume
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The sun - my almighty physician.

Author: Thomas Jefferson
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I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passiona

Author: Alec Waugh
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People in your life leave you a rhyme,On leaving they leave a new footprint in the Sands of Time.

Author: Adhish Mazumder
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There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all the

Author: William Shakespeare
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I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate

Author: Robert Goolrick
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He would do anything to avoid ageing and death...anything.

Author: Mark Benjamin
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We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

Author: Yitzhak Rabin
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Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my

Author: Mark Twain
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She's not pushing forty she's dragging it.

Author: Anonymous
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Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Author: Jimmy Dean
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Whoa, who peed in your Cheerios?

Author: Becca Fitzpatrick
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To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and me

Author: Paul Rand
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They were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs long as saplings

Author: Francesca Lia Block
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We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we sa

Author: Thomas McGuane
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Life is a journey that have a lot different path, but any path u choose use it as your destiny.

Author: Ryan Leonard
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As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which

Author: Sarah Dessen
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My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial

Author: Marina and the Diamonds
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If ev

Author: Aimee Bender
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I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not.

Author: Julie Garwood
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Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you n

Author: Joyce Meyer
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I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other d

Author: Hermann Hesse
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Mindset and attitude are so tightly intertwined they almost mean the same thing!

Author: Susan C. Young
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A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.

Author: Walt Disney Company
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Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.

Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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He’s like a hero come back from thewar, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams.W

Author: Henry Miller
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Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

Author: Bernard Baruch
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I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced

Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Beautify your inner dialogue and it'll open the doorway to creativity

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It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective.

Author: Mandy Hale
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Knowledge will help you to gain wisdom wisdom will open your mind to being kind.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards o

Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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I'm a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what the

Author: Gary Paulsen
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Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an e

Author: Jon Bon Jovi
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Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those wh

Author: T.S. Eliot
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Children are touched by heaven—their every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the de

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As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Wh

Author: Arundhati Roy
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Player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.

Author: John Adams
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Once you have learned how to subtract the gross form of ‘my’, subtract the subtle form of ‘my’. Ther

Author: Dada Bhagwan
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But these trees don’t grow impatiently. They move with a grace, with patience, with trust. There is

Author: Osho
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One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbe

Author: M. J. Rose
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But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ev

Author: Diana Rose Morcilla
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You never know what motivates you.

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Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you t

Author: Wally Lamb
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My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.

Author: Omar Khayyám
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I don't know Kitten," she said, zipping up her money belt, "but I'll tell you one thing--if it were

Author: Kate Mulgrew
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There are truths that are not for all men nor for all times.

Author: Voltaire
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Look. If I touch you with this hand, I can remember touching you, but I can't prove I ever did. If r

Author: Kaori Ozaki
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I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it g

Author: Lillian E. Smith
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The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and r

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The pleasure of reading is indescribable.

Author: Unknown
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I’ve learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowin

Author: Munia Khan
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without root

Author: Marcus Garvey
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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Author: Anita Baker
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I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way t

Author: Sonam Kapoor
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When you decided to share your dreams with others be aware of discouraging response. Don't try to ju

Author: Euginia Herlihy
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There is no victor in life - for it is a game of expression, not of greed.

Author: Robert Vanleeuwen
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Self acceptance is a key factor in life.

Author: Auliq-Ice
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Yeah, you bet Romani.' Percy bared his forearm and showed them the brand he'd got at Camp Jupiter- t

Author: Rick Riordan
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Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test q

Author: Eoin Colfer
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...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harp

Author: Elizabeth Goudge
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What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation tha

Author: Eckhart Tolle
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Life is not a dream to be dreamed but a story to be written.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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When evil rules a time and place, certain good people are called upon to tell the truth to those who

Author: Anne F. Rockwell
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You need contradictions to make an ideal.

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Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.

Author: Hannah Rothschild
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Past and to come seems best things present worst.

Author: William Shakespeare
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Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.''And not a single coin are they

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