In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Dare to be yourself.
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