The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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