Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDEThe true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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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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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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