Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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