Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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