You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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