Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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