God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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