Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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