But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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The 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.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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