Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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