There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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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.'Andre Gide
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Andre Gide
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands
Andre Gide
The belief that becomes truth for me - is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
Andre Gide
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide
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