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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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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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The color of truth is gray.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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