Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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