In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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