To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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