Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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The color of truth is gray.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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