Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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