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Andre Gide Quote - Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.

Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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