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One 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.
- The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
- But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
- Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of…
- The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
- In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of…
- A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
- The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
- There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
- True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
- If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
- Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
- I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely…
- Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
- One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
- Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
- The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
- What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there…
- The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would…
- One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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