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

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
― Andre Gide

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“Dare to be yourself”
― André Gide

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

“The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.”
― André Gide

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