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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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 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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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
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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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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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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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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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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 can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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