A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDETo 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.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of 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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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