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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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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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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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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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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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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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