In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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