I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDENothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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