Andre Gide on joy
Andre Gide62 quotes“Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.”
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
Andre GideAndre Gide Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre GideAndre Gide The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Andre GideAndre Gide Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
Andre GideAndre Gide You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
Andre GideAndre Gide Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
Andre GideAndre Gide Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
Andre GideAndre Gide The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
Andre GideAndre Gide What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
Andre GideAndre Gide Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
Andre GideAndre Gide Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Andre GideAndre Gide Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
Andre GideAndre Gide I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Andre GideAndre Gide A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
Andre GideAndre Gide Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre GideAndre Gide To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
Andre GideAndre Gide
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