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The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence.

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words