I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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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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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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