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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

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Cease Deception Life Sincere Wisdom
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Achievement Depend God
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.
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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
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
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
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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