A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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