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“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
― Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
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“You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.”
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice
“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life”
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”
― Demian
― Demian
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