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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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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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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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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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Sadness is a state of sin.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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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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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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