"One completely overcomes only what one assimilates."
- Andre Gide
"The scholar seeks the artist finds."
"A work of art is an exaggeration."
"A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective."
"Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!"
"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 whi..."
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time."
"Long only for what you have."
"Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else."