Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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