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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts. ↗

— Theo Van Gogh

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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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