Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDEThe 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.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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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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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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