To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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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.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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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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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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