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Love Sayings by Andre Gide
- The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
- What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
- Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for…
- Only fools don't contradict themselves
- I do not love men: I love what devours them.
- Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
- Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every…
- Please do not understand me too quickly.
- Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of…
- The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our…
- The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
- I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
- Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
- The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
- I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
- A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
- Long only for what you have.
- I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
- Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
- I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
- The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
- The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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