What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys 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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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