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.
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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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