We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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