Quote by Andre Gide
The abominable effort to take ones sins with one to paradise. - An

The abominable effort to take ones sins with one to paradise. – Andre Gide

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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. – Andre Gide

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

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Art
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. – Andre Gide

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alone
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Paradise, Utopia
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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better. – Laurie Halse Anderson

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords. – J. A. Primo De Rivera

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? – Logan P. Smith

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I try to contrast life today is full of contrast… We have to change. – Gianni Versace

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For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare

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The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity. – Walter Ulbricht

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