60+ Andre Gide Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDE

Acceptance Change Evil Motivational Struggle Work
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE

Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
To 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.
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Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Adventure Believe Finding People Success
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Happiness Memories Past Prevention
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
The color of truth is gray.
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Color Gray One Liner Truth
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Close Door Inspirational Law Life Open
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Courage Discover Inspirational Lose Man Ocean Risk Shore Sight
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDE

Cease Deception Life Sincere Wisdom
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDE

Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
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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Answer Console Insult People
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
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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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man

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