Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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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 only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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