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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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 miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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