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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Autobiographer
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Film Producer
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Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
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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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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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