But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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