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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Andre Gide

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDE

Attachment Life Welcome
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
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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Life Live Obligation Truth
The color of truth is gray.
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Color Gray One Liner Truth
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDE

Age Old Youth
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
ANDRE GIDE

Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDE

Depression Fatigue Saf
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDE

Answer Console Insult People
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDE

Cease Deception Life Sincere Wisdom
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Happiness Memories Past Prevention
Dare to be yourself.
ANDRE GIDE

Be Yourself Dare One Liner
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDE

Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE

Doubt Finding Trust Truth
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDE

Gift Nature Perhaps

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

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