To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDEWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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 are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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