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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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