Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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