Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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