Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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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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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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