The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEMan is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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