To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDEHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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