What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
Andre Gide
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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