‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEWe should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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