Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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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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