Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDEPlease do not understand me too quickly.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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