Prejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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