Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
ANDRE GIDETo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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