Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDETo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Dare to be yourself.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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