Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEI do not love men: I love what devours them.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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