I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDEIn other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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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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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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 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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