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«All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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«Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.»
«The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.»
«Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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«That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.»
«Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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Painting
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«My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Art
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«The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes»
«Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
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