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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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