Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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