Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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