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Andre Gide Quote - Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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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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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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.
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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Joy Moments Preparation Unique
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDE

Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
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
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
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDE

Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDE

Age Habit Live Resolution
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
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDE

Art Artist Collaboration God
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDE

Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Acceptance Change Evil Motivational Struggle Work
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDE

Achievement Depend God
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDE

Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDE

Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDE

Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDE

Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDE

Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDE

One Liner Sin Soul
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDE

Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDE

Cease Deception Life Sincere Wisdom
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDE

Adventure Believe Finding People Success
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove

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