Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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