Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEThe true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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