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.
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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found 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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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