The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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