Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Dare to be yourself.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDE