I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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