It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDEOne does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Dare to be yourself.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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