The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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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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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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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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