There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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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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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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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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