André Gide

André Gide

"In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future."
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"In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future."
André Gide
"Through loyalty to the past our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."
André Gide
"It is now and in this world that we must live."
André Gide
"The world will be saved by one or two people."
André Gide
"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."
André Gide
"Sadness is a state of sin."
André Gide
"Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue."
André Gide
"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
André Gide
"We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves."
André Gide
"Nothing is good for everyone but only relatively to some people."
André Gide
"What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer."
André Gide
"Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases."
André Gide
"Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented."
André Gide
"Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live."
André Gide
"In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future."
André Gide
"To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy."
André Gide
"One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything and consequently get nothing."
André Gide
"Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else."
André Gide
"Long only for what you have."
André Gide
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time."
André Gide
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