There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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