To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found 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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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