To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDEI do not love men: I love what devours them.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Dare to be yourself.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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