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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Andre Gide

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDE

Gift Nature Perhaps
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Cherish Goodness Humanity Live Men
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDE

Art Artist Collaboration God
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDE

Attachment Life Welcome
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDE

Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
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
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDE

Fear Monster Warrant

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

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