Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Dare to be yourself.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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