Andre Gide Quotes

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• The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit… Charming
• The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. Ceases
• Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured. Inspirational
• Only fools don't contradict themselves Contradict
• I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot… Attempt
• The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are,… Action
• You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else. Answer
• The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Creation
• I do not love men: I love what devours them. Devours
• Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write… Beings
• Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. Envying
• Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every… Breathe
• Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable. Exists
• 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… All
• We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s… Absurd
• Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. Begets
• Please do not understand me too quickly. Inspirational
• Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of… Afraid
• 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… Earn
• The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them. Beaten

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