There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDEThe true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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