It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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