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Inspirational Quotes by Andre Gide

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The things one feels give each person a rare value, according to Andre Gide. He urges us to rely on ourselves, to stop complaining and to cherish humanity while we live among others. He also suggests looking inside, like a mirror, to see the soul we love.

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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

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The wise man is astonished by anything.

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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

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Sadness is a state of sin.

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Whither should we aim if not towards God?

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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

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The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.

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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

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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.

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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the…

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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

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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…

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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

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“The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and…

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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God…

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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

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There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.

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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!

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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

“The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are…

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very…

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself…

“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.”

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed…

“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

“C'est dans l'extraordinaire que je me sens le plus naturel.”