I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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