The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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