Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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