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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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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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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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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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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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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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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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