Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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