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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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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 fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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