The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDEWisdom comes not from reason but from love.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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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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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 color of truth is gray.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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