Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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