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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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The color of truth is gray.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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