The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDENothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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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 very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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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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