It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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 is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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