Andre Gide Quotes
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The color of truth is gray.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.