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.
ANDRE GIDEWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory 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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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