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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Andre Gide
Unique, Joy, Preparation

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.

Andre Gide
Joy, Mind, Needs
"Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality". Book by André Gide, edited by Justin O'Brien, 1964.

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.

Andre Gide
Angel, Play, Joy

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

Andre Gide
Joy, Despair, Desire
Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.65, Vintage

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

Andre Gide
Happiness, Remembrance, Joy
Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.43, Lulu Press, Inc

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Andre Gide
Kindness, Empathy, Joy
Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.281, Routledge

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

Andre Gide
Joy, Defiance

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