‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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 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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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