Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRE GIDEWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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