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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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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