But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEWisdom comes not from reason but from love.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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