Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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