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.
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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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