I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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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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