The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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