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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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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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Dare to be yourself.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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 man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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