What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Dare to be yourself.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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