Know 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.
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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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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Dare to be yourself.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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