Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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