We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDESociety knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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 those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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