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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.

Andre Gide

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDE

Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Love Positive Reason Wisdom
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Close Door Inspirational Law Life Open
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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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
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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Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDE

Optimism Profound Torture
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE

Doubt Finding Trust Truth
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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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDE

Art Artist Collaboration God
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.
ANDRE GIDE

Life Live Obligation Truth

Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.

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