What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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