The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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