one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to… — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a… — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does. — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
