In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDEThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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