‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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