There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDEYou have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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