André Gide Short Quotes

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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.

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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

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The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.

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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

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Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

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In the realm of the emotions, the real is indistinguishable from the imaginary.

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The whole effect of Christianity was to transfer the drama onto the moral plane.

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One must allow others to be right, it consoles them for not being anything else.

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

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O my dearest and most lovable thought, why should I try further to legitimize your birth?

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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...

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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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Oh, if only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast there!

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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the sufferings and joys of others.

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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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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

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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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