Marie Bashkirtseff Quotes

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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
Art... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work.

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When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

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Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

Marie Bashkirtseff
I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!

Marie Bashkirtseff
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

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When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.

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I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.

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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 believe in priests.

Marie Bashkirtseff
I want to live faster, faster, faster!... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?

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Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

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I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how.... I shall be famous or I will die.

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They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate.

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To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

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To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness... as if I had never existed.

Marie Bashkirtseff