‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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