God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDEWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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