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“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.”
― Balzac

“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
― Honore de Balzac

“There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
― Paul Gauguin

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
― Edgar Degas

“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
― Edgar Degas

“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people”
― Edgar Degas

“My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do not see them? . . . I can find the best and clearest words to explain my meaning, and I have spoken to the most intelligent people about art, and they have not understood; but among people who understand, words are not necessary, you say humph, he, ha and everything has been said.”
― Edgar Degas, Degas by Himself : Drawings, Paintings, Writings

“We were created to look at one another, weren't we”
― Edgar Degas

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
― William Blake

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
― William Blake

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated

“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons