Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDEWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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