God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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