Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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