Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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