We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDEBelieve those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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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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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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