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Andre Gide Quotes

French - Novelist | November 22, 1869 - February 19, 1951

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Beautiful Madness Beautiful Things

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Great Art Labor Masterpiece Overcome

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

Yourself You Said Done Say Write

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Truth Believe Doubt Find Who Those

The color of truth is gray.

Truth Color Truth Is Gray

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Soul Sin Whatever

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

Life Decisive Actions Most Often

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

God Through Us Depends Achieved

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

Hell Punishment Over Begin Left

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

God Art Collaboration Better Artist

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Good Long Follow Own Upward Bent

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Giving You Complete Give Only

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