Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDEIn other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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