Please do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRE GIDETo 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.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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.
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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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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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