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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
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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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDE

Answer Console Insult People
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDE

Freedom Inspirational Oneself
Dare to be yourself.
ANDRE GIDE

Be Yourself Dare One Liner
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE

Doubt Finding Trust Truth
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.
ANDRE GIDE

Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
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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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE

Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDE

Age Old Youth
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Man Reality Thinking
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.
ANDRE GIDE

Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer

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