The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEOne does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt 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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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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