Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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