Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDEOnly those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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