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Andre Gide Quote - Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.

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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDE

Attempt Encouragement Impossible Motivational
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDE

Answer Console Insult People
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Joy Moments Preparation Unique
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDE

Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDE

Fatal Happiness Remember
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDE

Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDE

Adventure Believe Finding People Success
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDE

Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDE

Age Old Youth
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE

Doubt Finding Trust Truth
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDE

Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDE

Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Deep Man Reality Thinking
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.
ANDRE GIDE

Life Live Obligation Truth
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Cherish Goodness Humanity Live Men
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDE

Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDE

Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
The color of truth is gray.
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Color Gray One Liner Truth
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDE

Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live

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