But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEEnvying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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