Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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