The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The color of truth is gray.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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