What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDEPlease do not understand me too quickly.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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