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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.

Andre Gide

You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Answer Console Insult People
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Courage Discover Inspirational Lose Man Ocean Risk Shore Sight
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
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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Freedom Inspirational Oneself
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
The color of truth is gray.
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Color Gray One Liner Truth
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Life Live Obligation Truth
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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Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man

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