Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDEWisdom comes not from reason but from love.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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