Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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