Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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