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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.

Andre Gide

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
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
I 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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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
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
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
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
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
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice

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