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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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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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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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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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