Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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