Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDEThere are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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