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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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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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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 advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
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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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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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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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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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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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