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The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951)
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
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Born:
February 19, 1917
Died:
September 29, 1967
(aged 50)
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