Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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