We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDESo long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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