In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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