There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDEEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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