There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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