There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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