‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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 can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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