Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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