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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

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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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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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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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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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