It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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