Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDEThere are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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