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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

Andre Gide

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
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDE

Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
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
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDE

Acceptance Change Evil Motivational Struggle Work
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
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDE

Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDE

Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDE

Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDE

Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
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
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDE

Close Door Inspirational Law Life Open
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDE

Freedom Inspirational Oneself
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
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDE

Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE

Be Yourself Deep Hate Love

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