Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEA man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The color of truth is gray.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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