A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDEPlease do not understand me too quickly.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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The 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.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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