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““When grace is given it comes to us as joy, maybe, but it can also be earned, I am convinced, through the rigorous examination of the sources of pain.””

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Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it…

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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.

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I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope…

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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

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Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

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