I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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