The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDEA man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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