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.
ANDRE GIDETo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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