So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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