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 GIDEHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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