Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDESadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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