Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a yo...
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“To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.”
“Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.”
“Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.”
“Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!”
“When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.”
“When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.”
“... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.”
“They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate.”
“To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.”
“I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.”
“Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.”
“The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.”
“Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.”