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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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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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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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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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