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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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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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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
Andre Gide
What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
Andre Gide
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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