Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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 funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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