It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.


Andre Gide

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ANDRE MALRAUX
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or id...
ANDRE MALRAUX
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the...
ANDRE MAUROIS
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world
ANDRE MAUROIS
There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and comple...
ANDRE MAUROIS
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discip...
ANDRE MAUROIS
In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.
ANDRE MAUROIS
Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same to...
ANDRE AGASSI
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
ANDRE MAUROIS
The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the w...
ANDRE RIEU
'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE