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.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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The color of truth is gray.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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