The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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