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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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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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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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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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