It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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