There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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