Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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The color of truth is gray.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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