So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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