Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDEI 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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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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