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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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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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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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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.
Andre Gide
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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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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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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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.
Andre Gide
Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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