He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRE GIDEPlease do not understand me too quickly.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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