"I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart."
- Vincent van Gogh
"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."
"Only when I fall do I get up again."
"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."
"Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire."
"It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought..."
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream."
"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempte..."
"Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will..."
"La tristesse durera toujours.]"