Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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