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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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