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.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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