It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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 prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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