The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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