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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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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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The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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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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Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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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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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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