Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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