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“I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?”

Quote by Egon Schiele

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Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter known for his emotionally charged portraits and nudes. His work is characterized by its bold lines, dramatic poses, and intense expression. Schiele's brief but influential career was marked by his exploration of modernism and his close association with the Vienna Secession. more

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“For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.”

Heart Long Steps My Heart Long Time Empty Hotel Tombs Deserted Shutters

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.”

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Author:Marcel Proust

“There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.”

Doe Ideas Opposites No Idea Refutation

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past

“In love, happiness is an abnormal state.”

States Abnormal

Author:Marcel Proust

“Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness.”

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Book:Nobel Prize Library

Source: Nobel Prize Library

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Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.”

Source: The plague: translated from the French

“No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.”

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Book:The plague: translated from the French

Source: The plague: translated from the French