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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with A >> Quotes By Andr Gide |
| Quote #1: | "The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- because they were too obvious." |
| Quote #2: | "Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else." |
| Quote #3: | "There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them." |
| Quote #4: | "In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future." |
| Quote #5: | "It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace." |
| Quote #6: | "Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you." |
| Quote #7: | "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." |
| Quote #8: | "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." |
| Quote #9: | "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." |
| Quote #10: | "Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." |
| Quote #11: | "It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not." |
| Quote #12: | "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." |
| Quote #13: | "Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it." |
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