Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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