There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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