In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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