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.
ANDRE GIDEWe should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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