Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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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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