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It was as if an embankment had been swept away and I (Neel ) were floundering in a flood , trying not to drown in my grief. — Amitav Ghosh

The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude. — Neel Burton

If you paint the world in black and white you lose its colour. — Neel Burton

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment. — Alexandra David-Neel

Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard? — Alexandra David-Neel

As so often in life, it is not a case of true and false, but of true and more true. — Neel Burton

Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing. — Neel Burton

Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe. — Neel Burton

All experience is great providing you live through it.
If it kills you, you've gone too far. — Alice Neel

Drinking turns a fool into a merry fool. — Neel Burton

Wine is a story that gives birth to stories, and man, a story-telling animal. — Neel Burton

Relative poverty is when you have more taste than money. — Neel Burton

Philosophy gives life to life. — Neel Burton

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late. — Neel Burton

One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both. — Neel Burton

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that. — Alice Neel

Madness is like wine: small amounts are inspiring, but too much can make you ill. — Neel Burton

A genius is no more - and no less - than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way. — Neel Burton

If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world. — Alice Neel

Apple Stores produce more sales per square foot than any other retailer in the United States, including luxury stores like Tiffany. — Neel Doshi

Let the prisoner go. She's not here for your amusement nor for your pleasure. — Neel Kay

One writes what one can, or has to, write. — Neel Mukherjee

Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling. — Neel Burton

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. — Neel Burton

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me. — Alice Neel

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it. — Alice Neel

No one ever pays to learn the most important things. — Neel Burton

What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance. — Andrew Neel

One generation builds, the next generation consumes it to nothing; that is the abiding truth of life. — Neel Mukherjee

Her veins and arteries ran with a bitter fluid, not blood, Adinath exclaimed in fury one day. — Neel Mukherjee

When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was ... I thought art is art. — Alice Neel

Work defines our lives and our place in the world. — Neel Mukherjee

The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them. — Neel Burton

Many things can prolong your life, but only wisdom can save it. — Neel Burton

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer. — Neel Mukherjee

I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently. — Neel Mukherjee

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you. — Alice Neel

Xenophobia is when you smile at people and they don't smile back. — Neel Burton

Within minutes a small crowd had gathered: what could be more interesting than other people's lives? — Neel Mukherjee

Anxiety, says Kierkegaard, is the dizziness of freedom. — Neel Burton

I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony. — Neel Mukherjee

Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness. — Neel Burton

Neel's model might match the store's volume but never its density — Robin Sloan

An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone. — Neel Burton

Being a Bengali, one is surprised when all the endless spume and froth of talk suddenly reveals itself to be the front of a gigantic wave of action. — Neel Mukherjee

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside? — Alexandra David-Neel

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself. — Alice Neel

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude. — Alexandra David-Neel

Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside. — Neel Mukherjee

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully. — Alexandra David-Neel

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul ... — Alexandra David-Neel

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world. — Elizabeth Neel

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety. — Alexandra David-Neel

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet ... — Alexandra David-Neel

Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change. — Alice Neel

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom. — Alice Neel

The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education. — Neel Burton

It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made. — Neel Burton

Philosophy is an act of seduction between one true lover and another, most often the philosopher and himself. — Neel Burton

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest. — Neel Burton

It was enough that I knew my soul sang, I didn't have to break into minstrelsy. — Neel Mukherjee

If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth. — Neel Burton

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference. — Alexandra David-Neel

Our life is just as long or short as our memory, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking. — Neel Burton

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go. — Neel Mukherjee

It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content. — Neel Mukherjee

Not for the first time in his life he felt himself fall into the gap between felings and their articulation in language. — Neel Mukherjee

The incident, played out for, it seemed, a few infinitely elastic seconds, caused a certain calculation to go through the boy's head. — Neel Mukherjee

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it. — Alice Neel

Whoever said that time blunts all pain did not quite understand that bluntness can wound as grievously as sharp points and edges; — Neel Mukherjee

When you see something every day, it gets into your brain. — Elizabeth Neel

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward. — Alexandra David-Neel

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. — Alexandra David-Neel

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. — Alice Neel

When we stop noticing small things, we are no longer truly alive. — Neel Burton

Maths is at only one remove from magic. — Neel Burton

the best education consists not in being taught but in being inspired, — Neel Burton

I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this. — Neel Mukherjee

Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule. — Neel Mukherjee

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers. — Neel Burton

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything. — Alice Neel

A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't. — Neel Burton

The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened. — Neel Burton

I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.' — Neel Mukherjee

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls ... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. — Alice Neel

Guard against idols
yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself. — Alexandra David-Neel