Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDEBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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