There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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