‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt 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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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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