There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDEThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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