Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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