Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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 capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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