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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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 capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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