Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEYou have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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 funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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