Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDEIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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 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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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