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• When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Order, Darkness, Exhausted

  Letter to Farkas Bolyai, September 2, 1808.

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• Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

  Guido Molinari

  Brain, Different, Patterns

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• About three years went by and I had become exhausted - really at the end of my rope almost - and I thought I couldn't last much longer... and at the very end, when I thought of giving it all up, suddenly I thought it was good. I knew that I now understood something about it and I painted it as easily as you can imagine.

  Milton Resnick

  Years, Giving, Three

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• A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Genius, Proportion

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• If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

  Eric Maisel

  Thinking, Self, Anxiety

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.231, Penguin

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• Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. Resting in what Jesus has done for us releases the revolutionary power of the gospel.

  J. D. Greear

  Jesus, Frustration, Done

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• The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

  Susan Sontag

  Men, History, Becoming

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• It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.

  Edmondo De Amicis

  Dream, Sleep, Feelings

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• Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

  Barber Conable

  Decision, Exasperation

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• An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Artist, Hands, Gone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.386, Harvard University Press

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• Evidence exhausts the truth.

  Georges Braque

  Evidence

  "Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde". Book edited by Charles Juliet (pp. 60-61), 2009.

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• Don't want to slump over the oars.

  James Genn

  Slumps, Want, Oar

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• I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.

  Jay Asher

  Fall, Ivy, Want

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.3, Penguin

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• … but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

  John Irving

  Being Human, Form, Humans

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• At the end of the day, honoring God leads to good things. Anything else leads to confusion, emotional exhaustion and a lack of good things.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Emotional, Confusion, The End Of The Day

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2016

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• And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.

  Hermann Hesse

  Home, Sky, Earth

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

  Claude Monet

  Sleep, Pigs, Devil

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Way, Fraternity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.164, Modern Library

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• If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Summer, Dark, Eight

  Jonathan Carroll (2004). “Sleeping in Flame”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Risk, Nerves

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• And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.

  Georg Buchner

  Eye, Tired, Light

  "Leonce and Lena". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1838.

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• Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.

  Janet Fitch

  Sleep, Lovers, Giddy

  Janet Fitch (2013). “Paint It Black”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• This was nonsense, he thought. The need of her was a physical thing, like the thirsty of a sailor becalmed for weeks on the sea. He'd felt the need before, often, often, in their years apart. But why now? She was safe; he knew where she was - was it only the exhaustion of the past weeks and days, or perhaps the weakness of creeping age that made his bones ache, as though she had in fact been torn from his body, as God had made Eve from Adam's rib?

  Diana Gabaldon

  Past, Years, Sea

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.2151, Delacorte Press

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• She reached up and lay her hand on my cheek. "You have the sweetest face," she said, looking at me dreamily. "It's like the perfect kitchen." I fought not to smile. This was the delirium. She'd fade in and out of it before the profound exhaustion dragged her down into unconsciousness. If you see someone spouting nonsense to themselves in an alleyway in Tarbean, odds are they're not actually crazy, just a sweet-eater deranged by too much denner. "A kitchen?" "Yes," she said. "Everything matches and the sugar bowl is right where it should be.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Crazy, Odds

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• This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought of you, before this minute upon another minute upon another Until, numb, my lips fell onto the mouth of another, and I was undone. ~from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter which is a fictional book in Ballad: A gathering of faerie

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Summer, Sweet

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie”, p.131, North Star Editions, Inc.

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