Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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