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I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

Frida Kahlo

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
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Muse Positive Subject Want
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
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Destiny Destroy Earth Mankind
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
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Face General Moustache Opposite Sex
You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.
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Count Deserve Encouragement Honesty People
I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
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Bore Country Face Lack Taste
Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they’re not at all the same. But they’re both symptoms inside the white male power structure.
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Comparison Mal Power Problem Racism Same Sex Structure Symptom
My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.
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Bicycle Toy
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
FRIDA KAHLO

Biscuit Look Lover
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
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Bastard Decent Feeling Learning Overwhelmed Sorrow Swim Try
I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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Believe Problem Process Survival Thinking
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.
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Curtain Freedom Madness
The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.
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Body Brain Eyebrows Eyes Face Important
I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
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Alive Happiness Paint
Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.
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Death Existence Intelligence Open Pain Pleasure Process Revolution Struggle
What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.
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Death Express Fear Hero Intense Invention Life People Reason
I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty – love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.
FRIDA KAHLO

Beauty Fall In Love Love Open Rain Transformation Want

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

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