Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Dare to be yourself.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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