Andre Gide Quotes About Joy
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
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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.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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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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