I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDEI wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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