Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Dare to be yourself.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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