Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Dare to be yourself.
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The color of truth is gray.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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