Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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