I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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