Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

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Art is to console those who are broken by life.

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Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

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The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

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What is done in love is done well.

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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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In spite of everything, I shall rise again

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