You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDEOne does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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