Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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