Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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