You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDEBelieve those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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