Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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