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 GIDESadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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