Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDEWisdom comes not from reason but from love.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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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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The color of truth is gray.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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