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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
-- Andre Gide
#Inspirational #Motivational #Change
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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”
-- Andre Gide
#Love #Inspirational #Life
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“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
-- Andre Gide
#Inspirational #Life #Positive
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“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”
-- Andre Gide
#Inspiration #Objectivity #Goal
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“What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.”
-- Andre Gide
#Effort #Demand #Teach
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“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
-- Andre Gide
#Funny #Life #Beautiful
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“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
-- Andre Gide
#Inspirational #Life #Beautiful
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“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
-- Andre Gide
#Spiritual #Art #Collaboration
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“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”
-- Andre Gide
#Beautiful #Sadness #Discovery
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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
#Writing #Stories #Literature
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“Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.”
-- Andre Gide
#Stupid #Silly #Men
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“Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.”
-- Andre Gide
#Christian #Soul #Unhappy
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“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
-- Andre Gide
#Memories #Adversity #Problem
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“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.”
-- Andre Gide
#Annoyed #Too Much #Elude
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“Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.”
-- Andre Gide
#Happiness #Remembrance #Joy
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“But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.”
-- Andre Gide
#New Year #Years #Old Habits
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“It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.”
-- Andre Gide
#Writing #Noble #Literature
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“Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.”
-- Andre Gide
#Wise #Kindness #Helping Others
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“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”
-- Andre Gide
#Fear #Cowardice #Worst
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“It is now, and in this world, that we must live.”
-- Andre Gide
#World #This World
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“Only fools don't contradict themselves”
-- Andre Gide
#Fool
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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
#Desire #Want #Should
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“I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.”
-- Andre Gide
#Distance #Eye #Past
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“The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.”
-- Andre Gide
#Life #Future #Mean
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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.”
-- Andre Gide
#Life #Spring #Real
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“The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.”
-- Andre Gide
#Beautiful #Writing #Madness
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“Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.”
-- Andre Gide
#Responsibility #Power #Men
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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
#Communication #Learning #Knowledge
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“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
-- Andre Gide
#Inspirational #Fear #Halloween
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“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
-- Andre Gide
#Love #Cute #Beautiful
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