Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDEThe truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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