Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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