Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDEHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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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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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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