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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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