Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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