One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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