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Andre Gide - From the Activity category:
The most decisive actions of our life are most often the unconsidered actions. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Belief category:
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Collaboration category:
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Drunkenness category:
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Freedom category:
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Greatness category:
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Ideas category:
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Insecurity category:
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Integrity category:
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself – and thus make yourself indispensable. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Life category:
It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Satisfaction category:
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise accompanying joy and, as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Strength category:
The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Writing category:
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Writing category:
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. (Andre Gide)
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