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.
ANDRE GIDEBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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