Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDESociety knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance 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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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