Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDEI can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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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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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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