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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

Andre Gide

Please do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRE GIDE

One Liner Please Poet Quick Understand
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDE

Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDE

Horror Love Mankind Men
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.
ANDRE GIDE

Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDE

Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDE

Art Artist Collaboration God
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDE

Answer Console Insult People
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE

Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE

Doubt Finding Trust Truth
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDE

Adventure Believe Finding People Success
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDE

Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
ANDRE GIDE

Happiness Memories Past Prevention

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

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