Prejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDE
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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The color of truth is gray.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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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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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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