To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Dare to be yourself.
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