Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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