Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
ANDRE GIDEI can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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