So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of 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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Be faithful to that which exists within 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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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