Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The color of truth is gray.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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