Prejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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