Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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