He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRE GIDEPlease do not understand me too quickly.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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 those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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