If, as I say, I did not love my betrothed, at any rate, I had never loved any other woman. - André Gide

به راستی چقدر کارها آسان میشد اگر انسان ها بسیاری از سهل‌انگاری های خود را به نام دور اندیشی و خیرخواهی توجیه نمی‌کردند.

In my present insistence on high standards you will see that there is less self-indulgence than resolve and application. I do not let the Christian monopolize the ideal of perfection. I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.

Art begins with resistance — at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.