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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
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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.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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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.
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The color of truth is gray.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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.
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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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