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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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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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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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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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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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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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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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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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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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