Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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