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.
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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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