‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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