There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDEI wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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