The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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