Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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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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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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