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.
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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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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