Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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