I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDEPlease do not understand me too quickly.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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