Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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