The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found 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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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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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