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.
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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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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