In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for 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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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