Please do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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