Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The color of truth is gray.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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