I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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