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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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 funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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