You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The color of truth is gray.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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