You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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 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.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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