Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of 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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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