The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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