What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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