What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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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 straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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