Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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