Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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The color of truth is gray.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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