There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The color of truth is gray.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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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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