Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDENothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Dare to be yourself.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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