Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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