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Prosaist Inspirational Quotes (18189)

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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
Andre Gide
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
Andre Gide
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
Andre Gide
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
Andre Gide
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Andre Gide
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
Andre Gide
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
Andre Gide
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
Andre Gide
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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Andre Gide
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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
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
Andre Gide
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
Andre Gide
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
Andre Gide
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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
Andre Gide
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
Andre Gide
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
Andre Gide
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
Andre Gide
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
Andre Gide
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
Andre Gide
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
Andre Gide
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
Andre Gide
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
Andre Gide
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Andre Gide
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Andre Gide
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