The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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