Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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