There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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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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