Prejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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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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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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