Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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