André Gide - Happiness Quotes

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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

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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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Ah, this, that we call happiness, how intimate a part of the soul it is, and of what little importance are the outside elements which seem to go to its making!

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Why have you not understood that all happiness is a chance encounter and that every moment presents itself to you like a beggar by the roadside?

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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

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