Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The color of truth is gray.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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