The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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 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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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