Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEMan is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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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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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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