Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEOnly those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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