Prejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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