Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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