Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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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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