Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDEA man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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