Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDEWisdom comes not from reason but from love.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The color of truth is gray.
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