Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDEI can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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