Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDESo long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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