You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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