Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDEYou have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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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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