Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDEThe true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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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.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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