Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEDare to be yourself.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The color of truth is gray.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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