Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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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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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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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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