The color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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