A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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The color of truth is gray.
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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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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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 more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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