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The Immoralist

The Immoralist
André Gide Original title L'Immoraliste (French)

The Immoralist is a novel by André Gide, published in France in 1902.

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“I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.”

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“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”

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“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”

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“A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned”

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“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”

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“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.”

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Savoir se libérer n'est rien; l'ardu, c'est savoir être libre.
The Immoralist, Chapter 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=MPmRAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Savoir+se+lib%C3%A9rer+n'est+rien+l'ardu+c'est+savoir+%C3%AAtre+libre%22&jtp=17#v=onepage (1902)
The Immoralist (1902)

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“The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they’re seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?”

André Gide book The Immoralist

Source: The Immoralist (1902), p. 159

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