Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Dare to be yourself.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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