Dare to be yourself.
ANDRE GIDEHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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