Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEKnow that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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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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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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