Prejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDESociety knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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