Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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