Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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