In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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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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