Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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