Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDESadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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