Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDE







