Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDESadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Dare to be yourself.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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