Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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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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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 wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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