The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEIn other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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