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- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
- Enemies
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
- Artist
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- Loved
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
- Must
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
- Only
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
- Giving
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
- Long
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Cross
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
- Sin
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
- Passion
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
- Inspirational
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
- Constructs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
- Misunderstanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
- Madness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
- Orphan
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not everyone can be an orphan.
- Hands
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- Gray
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- Nov 07, 2020
The color of truth is gray.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020