Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDESeize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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