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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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