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Quotes by Andre Gide

  • Dare to be yourself.
  • 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.
  • Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
  • Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
  • Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
  • So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
  • One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
  • Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
  • Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
  • There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'