God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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