It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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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 begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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