Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEI wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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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.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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