We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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