Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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