Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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