Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Dare to be yourself.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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