Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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