I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDEThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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 straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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