God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Dare to be yourself.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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