There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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