Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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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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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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