Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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