I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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