There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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‘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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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