We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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