Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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