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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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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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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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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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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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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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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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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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