Prejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDETo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The color of truth is gray.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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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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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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