Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDEMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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