Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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