Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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The color of truth is gray.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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