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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.

Andre Gide

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDE

Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
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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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
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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Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Achievement Depend God
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDE

Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
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.
ANDRE GIDE

Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDE

Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Man Reality Thinking
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDE

Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDE

Answer Console Insult People
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDE

Depression Fatigue Saf
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE

Doubt Finding Trust Truth

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