Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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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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