To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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