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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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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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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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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
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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 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 only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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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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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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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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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Solitude is bearable only with God.
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Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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