Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDEWisdom comes not from reason but from love.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find 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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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