The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDESo long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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