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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.Andre Gide
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The scholar seeks the artist finds.Andre Gide
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A work of art is an exaggeration.Andre Gide
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.Andre Gide
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Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!Andre Gide
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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.Andre Gide
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.Andre Gide
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Long only for what you have.Andre Gide
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Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else.Andre Gide
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything and consequently get nothing.Andre Gide
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To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.Andre Gide
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.Andre Gide
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Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.Andre Gide
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.Andre Gide
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.Andre Gide
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.Andre Gide
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Nothing is good for everyone but only relatively to some people.Andre Gide
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.Andre Gide
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It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.Andre Gide
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Sadness is a state of sin.Andre Gide
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.Andre Gide
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.Andre Gide
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The world will be saved by one or two people.Andre Gide
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It is now and in this world that we must live.Andre Gide
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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.Andre Gide
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.Andre Gide
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.Andre Gide
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.Andre Gide
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.Andre Gide
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.Andre Gide
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.Andre Gide
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.Andre Gide
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The color of truth is gray.Andre Gide
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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.Andre Gide
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.Andre Gide
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.Andre Gide
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.Andre Gide
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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.Andre Gide
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.Andre Gide
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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.Andre Gide
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.Andre Gide
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.Andre Gide