To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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