Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
ANDRE GIDEEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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