Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDEI do not love men: I love what devours them.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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