Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDETo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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