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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
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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 true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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Long only for what you have.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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