There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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