What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDENothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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The color of truth is gray.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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