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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.

Andre Gide

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDE

Adventure Believe Finding People Success
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDE

Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDE

Gift Nature Perhaps
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDE

Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live
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.
ANDRE GIDE

Life Live Obligation Truth
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
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDE

Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
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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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRE GIDE

Love Positive Reason Wisdom
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDE

Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
ANDRE GIDE

God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
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
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDE

Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDE

Depression Fatigue Saf

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