Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found 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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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