All Andre Gide Quotes
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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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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Art
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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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.
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Peace
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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