I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDEThere are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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