God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDEOnly those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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