Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
— André Gide Pretexts;: Reflections on literature and morality
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No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.
Tags: words, reading, literature, books
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
Tags: women, rose, respect, relationships
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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Aren’t you strong enough to walk alone? We must each of us find God by ourselves.
Tags: strength, god, faith, constancy
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
Tags: surrender, god, collaboration, art
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