I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDEWe should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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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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