To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDEDare to be yourself.
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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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