Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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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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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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