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#1

“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Collected Poems

tags: love-poems

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#2

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

62407 likes

#3

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide

tags: truth

1158 likes

#4

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― Andre Gide

tags: courage, daring, discovery, exploration, inspirational

1376 likes

#5

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
― André Gide, Prometheus Illbound

tags: horror, life, mankind, writers

396 likes

#6

“Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.”
― Andre Gide

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#7

“The color of truth is grey.”
― Andre Gide

tags: truth

362 likes

#8

“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
― Andre Gide

tags: writing

354 likes

#9

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”
― Andre Gide

tags: life

321 likes

#10

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
― André Gide

290 likes

#11

“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 as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.”
― André Gide

229 likes

#12

“Please do not understand me too quickly.”
― André Gide

223 likes

#13

“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

217 likes

#14

“He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.”
― André Gide

tags: relationships, respect, rose, women

209 likes

#15

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
― André Gide

tags: adventure, courage, journey

175 likes

#16

“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: adam-gottbetter, attempt, attempts, great-things, impossible, little-things, nothing-is-impossible, small-things

163 likes

#17

“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

155 likes

#18

“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice”
― Andre Gide

156 likes

#19

“Only fools don't contradict themselves”
― André Gide

149 likes

#20

“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 obligation.”
― André Gide

tags: joy

144 likes

#21

“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”
― André Gide

tags: cowardice, fear, ridicule

141 likes

#22

“Dare to be yourself”
― André Gide

118 likes

#23

“Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.”
― André Gide

116 likes

#24

“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.”
― André Gide

98 likes

#25

“On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage.

(One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.)”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

92 likes

#26

“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. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us”
― Andre Gide, Strait is the Gate and The Vatican Cellars

tags: personality, self

77 likes

#27

“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 day, without extinguishing it?”
― Andre Gide

75 likes

#28

“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.”
― André Gide

tags: differentiation, inspirational, specialization

77 likes

#29

“Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.”
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves

70 likes

#30

“Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.”
― André Gide

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