Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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 prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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