‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEMan is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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