Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Dare to be yourself.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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