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Andre Gide Quotes
Best Quotes by Andre Gide (Top 10)
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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More Andre Gide Quotes
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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