But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEA man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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