Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find 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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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 prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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