"Every artist paints his Madonna according to..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda
Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.
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“Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?”
“Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.”
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“There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.”
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