But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEBelieve those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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