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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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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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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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