‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Dare to be yourself.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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