I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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The color of truth is gray.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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