The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDENothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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