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

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


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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.



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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.



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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.



Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.



We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.



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

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



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

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



The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.



True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.





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