Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEI can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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