Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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.
ANDRE GIDE







