Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDEOne does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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