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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

Andre Gide

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Cherish Goodness Humanity Live Men
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDE

Capacity Freedom Motivational Task Work Hard
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
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
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDE

Joy Moments Preparation Unique
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDE

Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDE

Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDE

Art Artist Collaboration God
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDE

Gift Nature Perhaps
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
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Man Reality Thinking
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
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
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDE

Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live

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