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Love Quotes by Andre Gide
- To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
- It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing....
- Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
- A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
- Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
- Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
- The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
- If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
- Not everyone can be an orphan.
- True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
- Whither should we aim if not towards God?
- The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
- He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
- Solitude is bearable only with God.
- To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
- To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
- Understanding is the beginning of approving.
- Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
- The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only…
- Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
- Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
- God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
- It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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