Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDEThe 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.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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