Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDETo read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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