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Andre Gide Quotations

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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Dare to be yourself.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

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