There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDEHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Dare to be yourself.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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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.
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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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