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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

Andre Gide

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
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.
ANDRE GIDE

Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
ANDRE GIDE

Life Live Obligation Truth
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDE

Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDE

Optimism Profound Torture
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDE

Answer Console Insult People
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDE

Art Artist Collaboration God
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDE

Poet Words Writing
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDE

Achievement Depend God
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDE

Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
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.
ANDRE GIDE

Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad

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