Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDEWe should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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