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.

Quote by Andre Gide

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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit...

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth....

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth....

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

Therefore is a word the poet must not know.

Therefore is a word the poet must not know.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his...

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his...

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory...

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory...

Understanding is the beginning of approving

Understanding is the beginning of approving

Solitude is bearable only with God

Solitude is bearable only with God

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the...

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the...

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that...

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that...

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does...

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does...

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the...

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the...

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the...

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the...

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image....

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image....

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.