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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Andre Gide
Effort, Demand, Teach

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

Andre Gide
Effort, Mind, Genius
Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

Andre Gide
Long, Effort, Crafts

The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

Andre Gide
Effort, Paradise, Sin
"Andre Gide Journals 1889-1949". Book by André Gide, Detached Pages, 1913.

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