The color of truth is gray.
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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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