Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDESeize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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