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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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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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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.
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