Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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