It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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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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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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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDE







