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.
ANDRE GIDEThe 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.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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