There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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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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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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