Quotes from Marie Bashkirtseff

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

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

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

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

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

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

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.

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

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.