The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDEOnly those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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