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.
ANDRE GIDEWisdom comes not from reason but from love.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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