What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Andre Gide
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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.
- The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
- Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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