Quotes by Andre Gide
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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.
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.