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.
ANDRE GIDEDare to be yourself.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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