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.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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