There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDESeize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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