Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happines… - André Gide

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Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.

André Gide

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About André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947.

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Alternative Names: André Paul Guillaume Gide • Andre Gide • Andre Paul Guillaume Gide

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The deeper the soul plunges into religious religious devotion, the more it loses all sense of reality, all need, all desire, all love for reality.

Take me away from here and give me some reason for living. I have none left. I have freed myself. That may be. But what does it signify? This objectless liberty is a burden to me.

The self requires a story.

Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness. - André Gide

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