Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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