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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue


Henri Matisse

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HENRI NOUWEN Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other b...
HENRI NOUWEN When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realiz...
HENRI NOUWEN Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
HENRI POINCARE The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
HENRI PIRENNE The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may ...
HENRI PIRENNE If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
HENRI ROUSSEAU An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
HENRI BERGSON One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead ...
HENRI NOUWEN An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FREDERIC • When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventiv...
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