The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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.
ANDRE GIDEYou 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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDEWe should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
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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 most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRE GIDEPlease do not understand me too quickly.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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.
ANDRE GIDEI 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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDEOne does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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