Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDENothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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