Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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