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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Category: Adversity Author: Andre Gide
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Category: Adversity Author: Andre Gide
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Category: Art Author: Andre Gide
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Andre Gide
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
Category: Change Author: Andre Gide
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Category: Emotions Author: 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.
Category: Experience Author: Andre Gide
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Category: Fear Author: Andre Gide
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Category: Goals Author: Andre Gide
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Category: Hypocrisy Author: Andre Gide
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
Category: Listening Author: Andre Gide
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The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: Andre Gide
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: Andre Gide
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: Andre Gide
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Category: Perspective Author: Andre Gide
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Category: Philosophical Author: Andre Gide
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"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
Category: Poetry Author: Andre Gide
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Category: Risk Author: Andre Gide
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Category: Risk Author: Andre Gide
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"Know thyself" - a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to "know himself" would never become a butterfly.
Category: Self Discovery Author: Andre Gide
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