Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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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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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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